On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:13:16 +0100
Jiri Suchomel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dne Po 13. Ășnora 2012 19:19:56, Josef Reidinger napsal(a):
> > Hi YaST hackers,
> > there is problem with exceptions from ruby modules. Now if risen,
> > yast crash. I found this behavior quite annoying and it should be
> > improved. I can do it, question is what is correct behavior. Does
> > anyone have suggestion? In yast++ we have now error variable and
> > catch exceptions. So I can in ruby bindings ( and only in bindings
> > so ruby code is not affected ) extend class by method that return
> > message of last exception. So you can run code as if (Module::run
> > == nil) y2error ("Problem with run %1",Module.yast_error);
> 
> I think this is basically only option from YaST side; catch exception
> in ruby- bindings layer and save some error exception message (just
> do not call it 'yast_error', better, exception_message or
> last_error). Who would need to set that variable? YLib? Or could it
> be set by ruby-bindings from the exception message it catches?

ruby-bindings should set it. YLib shouls behave like modern library and
use exceptions. Name is not important it just need to be unique ( if there is 
existing ruby module with such name so we don't break it.

> 
> > I welcome any other suggestions or comments. Also it would be nice
> > to have uniform way....how python bindings solve such problem?
> 
> I do not think it is solved in python-bindings. I've just tested:
> when exception is raised, YaST logs an error. But it does not crash
>

It can be also option, but it prevent to have user friendly modules.
Josef
 
> 
> Jiri

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